Part three, "Beyond the Basics at Night," begins with camera effects that can be done to catch an image. By doing things like long exposures, you can catch random actions of light, just as by adding illumination you can manipulate the light and shadows on a subject.
You can also use Photoshop to create advanced effects to your images. Things like filters, black and white conversion, and tools such as Vanishing Point can create unique images.
Throughout the book, the author presented projects you could work on to enhance your learning experience. Chapter eleven adds more projects that can be used to further enhance the techniques you have learned. These include creating a movie theater scene, creating a movie poster, and working with a patterned background. Chapter 12 explores the various methods of output. These include print, PDF, and web presentation.
What I like about Nighttime Digital Photography is the projects included within the individual chapters that show how to work with a specific technique. There is a Blend project that shows how to fix an image when the lighting could not be controlled because of changing light conditions. The only thing I didn't like were projects in chapter 11. They didn't seem to fit the flow of the nighttime techniques as well, other than having used nighttime shots.
If you want to get into nighttime photography and have always wanted to know how to get there, then Nighttime Digital Photography With Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a very good start. It covers all the bases and will give you a lot of information to get you started.
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